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A reader from Beaumont, Texas , July 31, 1998
The ultimate history of the design of the fishing schooners.
Howard Chapelle, the dean of American watercraft historians completed this final work a few years before his death. Not particularly rich in "sea lore", it is nonetheless the standard resource regarding this American arche-type of design. Enhanced with numerous photographs, lines drawings and sketches of rigging and deck gear, it is a valuable resource. It is a complement to other volumes of Chappelle's work.

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The Perfect Storm is the tale of a doomed ship caught in the middle of what some meteorologists have called the storm of the century. At its heart is a gripping narrative about struggling for survival in a tempest of ferocious winds and 100-foot waves. But rookie author Sebastian Junger does more than simply spin a good yarn. His account of how fishermen ply their trade and lead their lives in the 1990s is fascinating. The same goes for his descriptions of storm formation, wave physics, and the terror of drowning.

Virginia L. Thorndike / Paperback / Published 1998
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Have you ever ridden a lobsterboat through rolling seas, or seen one under construction at a boat yard? Few people have been given a look into the craftsmanship that makes Maine lobsterboats so special. Nor have many had a chance to meet the men and women who design, build, and work aboard these ruggedly beautiful vessels. Until now.

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The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet

Spike Walker / Paperback / Published 1993
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Gripping, true-adventure account of crewing on deep-sea Alaskan fishing boats. In 1978, Walker arrived in Kodiak, Alaska, with $20, one skipper's name, and a determination to hook a berth on a crab boat. That year saw an unprecedented increase in the numbers of king crab on the continental shelf, boats fishing them, and prices paid at the canneries. Working on shares, a skilled deckhand could easily make $60,000 in one seven-week season.

Patrick Dillon / Hardcover / Published 1998
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Dillon brings his perceptive journalism skills to reconstructing the lives of the fishermen and their families and motivations -- from the need to strike out for more dangerous fishing grounds, because those closer to home were depleted, to simple greed.... This is a story of individuals, but it is also the story of an old, traditional industry pushed farther and farther offshore by heavy demand from top restaurants paying high prices.

William McCloskey / Paperback / Published 1995
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"Highliners" is the commercial fishermen's term for their own elite, the skippers and crews who bring in the biggest hauls. Set in Kodiak, HIGHLINERS brings into sharp relief the lives of the men and women who make their living catching salmon, king crab, halibut, and shrimp off the coast of Alaska.

William McCloskey / Hardcover / Published 1998
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McClosky writes with first-hand knowledge and passion about the sea and the men and women who fish it, survive it, sometimes drown in it. He tells compassionate sea stories about men and their families, their bondage to the sea and dependence on their boats. He also recounts precise statistics about fish populations, the rapid rise of high technology in commercial fishing industry during the 1950s and 1960s, and the subsequent overfishing and then crashing of some sea creatures' populations.

Douglas Whynott / Hardcover / Published 1995
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The bluefin tuna is the largest finfish in the ocean--as much as ten feet long, weighing up to 1,500 pounds. In Japan, where raw bluefin meat is a great delicacy, a single fish can bring $30,000. In this stirring account of a heroic, embattled way of life, Whynott details the competition and camaraderie among the fishermen, and their battle with conservationists who wish to limit the bluefin harves

Brad Matsen, Bradford Matsen / Paperback / Published 1998
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This book has a board view of fishing in Alaska. Unlike other books I have read on crabbing in Alaska this book tells about crabbing, salmon fishing, dragging and how the fishing in Alaska has changed over the years. It is a good overview of the fishing industry, but lacks the exciting tales told in Spike Walkers books on the Alaskan crab boom of the late seventies.

Pedro Denton, Clem Tilliom / Paperback / Published 1998
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Boats of Alaska: An Artist's Guide to Alaska's Commercial Fishing Boats is a book for all lovers of the sea, from the novice who wanders the docks and marinas of Alaska and are curious about the boats they see, to the experienced old seaman who's memory is renewed by looking at the paintings and sketches. By reading, and using, Boats of Alaska, you can gain a ha.sic knowledge of fishing activities along Alaska's coast.